Neurosciences

Is a computer simulation of a brain sufficient to make it intelligent?

Cognitive function involves the participation of many different neurotransmitter systems in a variety of brain areas.

Active touch perception, or haptic perception, is of primary importance for the planning, direction and execution of everyday actions.

Although our knowledge of mood disorders is expanding, comparatively little is known about bipolar depression in particular.

Foreword Barry Jacobs once memorably commented that the problem in understanding the role of serotonin in the brain was that it was implicated in virtually eve- thing but responsible for nothing [1].

Recent research indicates that the immune system and inflammatory reactions are governed and regulated by powerful neuronal mediators derived from the central and peripheral nervous system.

Sodium channels confer excitability on neurons in nociceptive pathways and exhibit neuronal tissue specific and injury regulated expression.

Despite tremendous advances in the understanding of the sensory nervous system which have accompanied the recent explosive growth of the neurosciences, rema- ably few innovative medicines directed towards pain and inflammation are ava- able.

Hypericum extract preparations are used extensively in many countries to treat mildly to moderately depressed patients.

Alcoholism is a pathological behavioural syndrome, characterised by comp- sive alcohol use, craving and relapses, even recurring after many years of abstinence.

This book addresses the growing need for machine learning and data mining in neuroscience.

Esoterik und Naturalismus als Bedrohung für Freiheit und AufklärungHomöopathen versprechen uns eine 'Medizin der Zukunft', Anthroposophen eine 'Erweiterung der naturwissenschaftlichen Medizin', Hirnforscher ein 'neues Menschenbild', Neurophilosophen eine 'neue Art von Ethik'.

Brains and Machines: Towards a unified Ethics of AI and Neuroscience provides a comprehensive overview of concepts and ethical issues at the intersection of two emerging technological trends in the 21st century: AI and neurotechnology.

The publication of the Vth International Symposium 1995 on "e;Mechanisms of Secondary Brain Damage"e; in Mauls/ltaly is a collection of focused reviews reaching from novel molecular- and cell biological findings to aspects of clinical management in head injury and cerebral ischemia.

"e;Modem Neurosurgery of Meningiomas and Pituitary Adenomas"e; presents the state-of-the-art of neurosurgery for these two types of tumors.

An traditionellen Intelligenztests wird häufig deren Bildungs- und Kulturabhängigkeit kritisiert.

This volume contains selected contributions from the XIth Meeting of the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery held in September 1994 in Antalyaffurkey.

Das Buch behandelt die neuesten Methoden und Ergebnisse der Darstellung von Hirnfunktionen und ihren krankheitsbedingten Störungen sowie die Möglichkeit, Struktur und Funktion einzelner Hirnstrukturen in Beziehung zu setzen.

Although age has been recognized as a risk factor for late-onset dementia of Alzheimer type, its etiology is unknown as yet.

The first international symposium on brain edema was held in Vienna/ Austria in 1965 followed by altogether eight meetings since.

Monoamine oxidase plays a major role in the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders including depressive illness, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

The role of the metals copper, zinc, magnesium, lead, manganese, mercury, lithium and aluminium in neuropsychiatric disease are well known and has been discussed on several occasions.

Until recently, monitoring of cerebral blood flow and metabolism was an unattained goal.

These proceedings from the Xth Congress of the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in Stockholm reflect the growing interest in these fields of neurosurgery.

Up to date, the treatment of arteriovenous racemose angiomas of the brain remains unsatisfactory.

It is a great honor and pleasure for cerebral infarction have been carried me to have Springer-Verlag publish out.

This volume is one in a series of monographs being issued under the general title of "e;Disorders of Human Communication"e;.

Scrapie, a naturally occurring neurodegenerative disease of sheep and sometimes goats, is a prototypic disease for the whole group of the subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies.

Great progress has been made in the understanding and prevention of secondary brain damage from acute cerebral disorders, such as trauma and ischemia.

Several methods have been used to demonstrate the vasculature of different organs in man and other species.

Schizophrenia has been the subject of intense research interest in recent years, as investigators have explored the biological bases for the disorder and for various approaches to its diagnosis and treatment.

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has been used for a decade in psychiatric research to study regional brain glucose metabolism, and the results seem to be inconsistent.

Generalized non convulsive epilepsy (GNCE), also called absence or petit mal epilepsy, is a disease appearing during childhood.

This volume is dedicated to Professor Ullrich Trendelenburg.

The book gives the most up-to-date information for the expanding field of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery from European and international experts.

This b00k reviews the recent advances in the research on Parkinson's disease.

The papers compiled in this supplementum are a selection of the best con- th tributions presented at the 19 Central-European Neurological Symposium (CNS 19) held on June 29 - July 1, 1989 in Vienna.

25 years have passed since a small group met for the First International Symposia on Brain Edema in Vienna.

The 4th Advanced Seminar in Neurosurgical Research was held on May 17th-18th, 1989 in the Abbey of Praglia, a XIIth century Benedictine Monastery, near Padua, Italy, and was devoted to "e;Neurosurgical Aspects of Epilepsy"e;.

During the last decade a multitude of studies concerning the dynamic changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2), and intracranial pressure (ICP) in the acute phase after head injury have been published.

The aim of Early Markers in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Diseases is to provide the reader with updated data on various approaches whose investigation and development could contribute to the discovery of early diag- nostic markers of these two degenerative diseases.

The Third Advanced Seminar in Neurosurgical Research was held in the Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Venice, Italy from 30th April to 1st May, 1987 and was devoted to "e;Neuroendocrinological Aspects of Neurosurgery"e;.